Doug Jones

Gordon Douglas "Doug" Jones (4 May 1954-) was a member of the US Senate from Alabama (D) from January 2018, succeeding Luther Strange.

Biography
Gordon Douglas Jones was born in Fairfield, Alabama on 4 May 1954, and he graduated from the University of Alabama in 1976 and from the Cumberland School of Law in 1979. He worked as a staff counsel for Senator Howell Heflin, served as an Assistant US Attorney from 1980 to 1984, and owned a private law firm in Birmingham from 1984 to 1997. Jones served as the US Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama from 8 September 1997 to 20 January 2001, succeeding Claude Harris Jr. and preceding Alice Martin, and he delivered justice to Ku Klux Klan members Thomas Edwin Blanton, Jr. and Bobby Frank Cherry, two of the perpetrators of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. He also secured an indictment against the Atlanta Olympic Park bomber, Eric Rudolph. In 2017, Jones ran for the US Senate as the Democratic Party nominee, and he narrowly defeated the controversial Republican Party nominee Roy Moore with 49.9% of the vote to Moore's 48.4%.